WASHINGTON - An anguished and angry President Joe Biden called for new restrictions on firearms Tuesday night after a gunman massacred 18 children at a Texas elementary school. "We have to act," Biden told the nation, after years of failure to pass new laws. "I'd hoped, when I became president, I would not have to do this.
again," Biden began during a news conference on Tuesday. "Another massacre. Uvalde, Texas. An elementary school. Beautiful, innocent second, third, fourth-graders.
And how many scores of little children who witnessed what happened, see their friends die as if they're in a battlefield for God's sake.
They'll live with it for the rest of their lives." "When in God’s name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby?" Biden said at the White House shortly after returning from a five-day trip to Asia that was bookended by tragedy.U.S.